{"id":86063,"date":"2026-01-30T14:44:40","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T14:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/should-we-ban-social-media-for-under-16s-bbc-question-time\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T14:44:40","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T14:44:40","slug":"should-we-ban-social-media-for-under-16s-bbc-question-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/should-we-ban-social-media-for-under-16s-bbc-question-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Should we ban social media for under 16s? | BBC Question Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UK government is consulting on a potential social media ban for under-16s, following growing political support for the idea <!--more--> since Australia banned under-16s from 10 platforms last month. <\/p>\n<p>Watch BBC Question Time panellists Konstantin Kisin, commentator and podcaster, and Jo Grady, general secretary of the University and College Union debate the implications of a social media ban.<\/p>\n<p>Catch up with the whole of the debate with BBC Question Time on iPlayer and Sounds now.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe here: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>For more news, analysis and features visit: www.bbc.com\/news <\/p>\n<p>#QuestionTime #BBCNews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK government is consulting on a potential social media ban for under-16s, following growing political support for the idea<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":86078,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}